Showing posts with label SharingIsCaring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SharingIsCaring. Show all posts

Thursday, December 30, 2010

My Awesome Endtable

Another for sharing is caring: My awesome endtable.  

My friend Alex and I frequented a local bar with the coolest tables around.  These tables were some sort of clear plastic (which we later learned was polyesther based) with different things encased within this plastic, be it wolverine toys, star wars, pogs, money & drugs... each one is different.  As car guys we figured we'd try our hands at something similar.  This was the product.


The base was a brake rotor, the height comes from a Ford camshaft, some metal bits that look like pushrods (not really pushrods though) coupled to pistons.  The pistons were embedded in some of this poly that we totally ripped off the idea for.  

I say was when talking about the table, because with our shoddy welding skills the base eventually broke since apparently camshafts are brakes were never meant to be joined in automotive furniture-art.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Sharing is Caring: Pics from Pikes Peak 2010

Figured I'd share a few pics from the trip I took with my girlfriend and friend to Pikes Peak for the Hill Climb. (all but the last photo are mine)

I'd be remiss if I didn't start out with Monster.  Holy hell this car was fast.  He was one of the 3 unlimited cars, so a helicopter was following the whole way up.

Rhys Millen was working to break the record that Monster took from his dad Rod, and brought this amazing piece of machinery.  It wasn't enough though.


Lots of other great stuff, like Bill Caswell and the infamous $500 BMW rally car.

The Semi was amazing too!



But the real reason we went up was to cheer on our friend Victor Kuhns who was campaigning his GC8 STi.  
 

Unfortunately on Friday practice thins didn't go as planned around the top section. 

Fortunately Victor and Curtis were ok, and look they may return next year.